Surgical coaching to achieve the ABMS vision for the future of continuing board certification.

In February 2019, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) released the final report of the Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future initiative, issuing strong recommendations to replace ineffective, traditional mechanisms for physicians' maintenance of certification with meaningful strategies that strengthen professional self-regulation and simultaneously engender public trust. The Vision report charges ABMS Member Boards, including the American Board of Surgery (ABS), to develop and implement a more formative, less summative approach to continuing certification. To realize the ABMS's Vision in surgery, new programs must support the assessment of surgeons' performance in practice, identification of individualized performance gaps, tailored goals to address those gaps, and execution of personalized action plans with accountability and longitudinal support.

Development and Assessment of the Wisconsin Surgical Coaching Rubric.

Importance: Surgical coaching continues to gain momentum as an innovative method for continuous professional development. A tool to measure the performance of a surgical coach is needed to provide formative feedback to coaches for continued skill development and to assess the fidelity of a coaching intervention for future research and dissemination.

Objective: To evaluate the validity of the Wisconsin Surgical Coaching Rubric (WiSCoR), a novel tool to assess the performance of a peer surgical coach.

Association of Personality and Thinking Style With Effective Surgical Coaching.

Importance: While interest in surgical coaching programs is rising, there is no objective method for selecting effective surgical coaches.

Objective: To identify a quantitative measure to determine who will be an effective surgical coach.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This prospective cohort study included coaches and coachees from 2 statewide peer surgical coaching programs: the Wisconsin Surgical Coaching Program and the Michigan Bariatric Surgical Collaborative coaching program.

A Statewide Surgical Coaching Program Provides Opportunity for Continuous Professional Development.

Objective: We sought to develop and evaluate a video-based coaching program for board-eligible/certified surgeons.

Summary Background Data: Multiple disciplines utilize coaching for continuous professional development; however, coaching is not routinely employed for practicing surgeons.

Methods: Peer-nominated surgeons were trained as coaches then paired with participant surgeons.